But how will you bank online, when your bank stops supporting non-TCPA clients in the intrest security?
After that, it's not a great leap to see the credit card companies only issue merchant accounts to those online retailers who similarly require the client to use TCPA.
At least in the UK, online government servies are in their infancy. A few well-placed bribes by a certain software company later, and suddenly I will only be able to access government services from a TCPA-compliant terminal...
Perhaps it is good thing that Sam & Max 2 has been cancelled. Better for it to end this way, than to have the original tarnished by a pisspoor sequel. *cough* Escape from Monkey Island *cough*
The more I think about it, the more I realise I am *glad* that the Xbox won't get the chance to ruin yet another game with so much potential, by lobotomizing it into a cookie-cutter "game" that appeals to the dreaded Casual Gamer.
Before you reply in anger, or mod me down, consider: do you really disagree with me, or are you just ignoring the evidence?
Look at Halo, look at Deus Ex 2, look at Broken Sword 3. These games should have been shining beacons of perfection amid a wash of mediocrity--but instead they are barely distinguishable amongst the rest of the dross that comprises today's market.
It is almost certainly too late for Thief 3. I, for one, sorely hope that a third System Shock game *isn't* on the cards.
You know, usually I would be the first to cry foul upon seeing MICROS~1 attempt to crush another industry... but this time, I really don't care.
I've yet to see an antivirus program for Windows that doesn't suck ass. Maybe the 409 kg competition will force Norton, et al, to spend actually spend money on improving their product, rather than burning money on INTRA WEB VIRUS ALERTS that read like PRs (oh wait, they ARE PRs).
The firewall products are just as bad--even if they don't crash your PC, mangle your system files and corrupt your registry, they are still completely useless--there's nothing to stop a malicious program from disabling the firewall you carefully set up, before carrying out its evil deeds. If there's not a Linux, etc, box, or some hardware firewall between you and your gateway then you are not safe, full stop.
Plus, I often get Spam advertising Norton's products. So for all I care, Norton at least can burn in hell.
> Me? I take a cue or two from the output of > 'xdpyinfo'. When something requires more than 20 > different extensions to fit in the modern world, > it's perhaps time for a re-think.
17:49 sam@xerces ~ $ lsmod | wc -l 54
> An X server is still nice for remote display > situations, but honestly: Who does that anymore > (and could they not be accomodated with VNC)?
A thought provoking point, sir! But surely you can see the difference between a government that provies social services for those who are unable to provide for themselves, and a government that passes into law a bill that serves to annul parts of the same Constitution and Bill of Rights that that government swore to defend?
You can twist the definition of 'safety' however you want, but the issue (of the size/power of the government) is not a dichotomy.
Having demonstrated that he has utterly no conception of the situation and issues involved, Micheal Speck should be sacked on the spot.
Looks like he's about as dumb as the crazy Australian eMinister (catchy New Labour-spun title used as I don't know his proper title). You know, the one who wants to cut Australia off from the rest of the Net(!):)
Although the situation in the UK doesn't seem to be anywhere near as ridiculous as some of the horror stories revealed in this thready, UK students can find a decent selection of textbooks from Smelly Student. All the books they sell are priced at 13.50!
The only reason I have to dislike them is that they severely reduced the resale value of my set of textbooks.:)
Bounces are sent with an empty envelope sender (ie, "MAIL FROM: " during the SMTP dialogue). Thus, the incoming bounce message is dropped, instead of replied to with another bounce.
If the mailserver you are sending your CV to is managed by vaguely competent admins then it will respond to your mail with a 550 error, which roughly corresponds to "piss off", and drop the connection.
The onus is then on the sending MTA (ie, your outgoing mail server) to send you a bounce message.
When dealing with viruses (or spammers), the only time you can ever be sure you are talking to the sender is while the message is being sent.
Anyone who believes that Trusted Computing, having been implemented as described above will _stay_ that way in subsequent implementations is a god damned fool.
It's all about acceptance. Remember the old adage about boiling frogs? You do it one degree at a time...
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But how will you bank online, when your bank stops supporting non-TCPA clients in the intrest security?
After that, it's not a great leap to see the credit card companies only issue merchant accounts to those online retailers who similarly require the client to use TCPA.
At least in the UK, online government servies are in their infancy. A few well-placed bribes by a certain software company later, and suddenly I will only be able to access government services from a TCPA-compliant terminal...
Call the primer something like "WHEN AMERICA'S DUMBEST INTRA WEB CREDIT CARDS ATTACK 3" and they'll lap it up.
Perhaps it is good thing that Sam & Max 2 has been cancelled. Better for it to end this way, than to have the original tarnished by a pisspoor sequel. *cough* Escape from Monkey Island *cough*
The more I think about it, the more I realise I am *glad* that the Xbox won't get the chance to ruin yet another game with so much potential, by lobotomizing it into a cookie-cutter "game" that appeals to the dreaded Casual Gamer.
Before you reply in anger, or mod me down, consider: do you really disagree with me, or are you just ignoring the evidence?
Look at Halo, look at Deus Ex 2, look at Broken Sword 3. These games should have been shining beacons of perfection amid a wash of mediocrity--but instead they are barely distinguishable amongst the rest of the dross that comprises today's market.
It is almost certainly too late for Thief 3. I, for one, sorely hope that a third System Shock game *isn't* on the cards.
"Packaging"? Surely you jest?
Go and learn just how much Branden Robinson and the rest of the Debian X Strike Force contribute to XFree86 before you go mouthing off next time!
I dunno why people buy Windows either!
You know, usually I would be the first to cry foul upon seeing MICROS~1 attempt to crush another industry... but this time, I really don't care.
I've yet to see an antivirus program for Windows that doesn't suck ass. Maybe the 409 kg competition will force Norton, et al, to spend actually spend money on improving their product, rather than burning money on INTRA WEB VIRUS ALERTS that read like PRs (oh wait, they ARE PRs).
The firewall products are just as bad--even if they don't crash your PC, mangle your system files and corrupt your registry, they are still completely useless--there's nothing to stop a malicious program from disabling the firewall you carefully set up, before carrying out its evil deeds. If there's not a Linux, etc, box, or some hardware firewall between you and your gateway then you are not safe, full stop.
Plus, I often get Spam advertising Norton's products. So for all I care, Norton at least can burn in hell.
Remember the first law of resource management: if you don't use up all of your budget, it will be reduced next year...
Of course, that shouldn't stop the bank from offering my optional security measures such as the ones you detailed above. Oh well.
> Me? I take a cue or two from the output of
> 'xdpyinfo'. When something requires more than 20
> different extensions to fit in the modern world,
> it's perhaps time for a re-think.
17:49 sam@xerces ~
$ lsmod | wc -l
54
> An X server is still nice for remote display
> situations, but honestly: Who does that anymore
> (and could they not be accomodated with VNC)?
Oh, that's ok--you weren't being serious.
Please log in so you can be moderated up!
A progress bar for file uploads is clearly the responsibility of the user-agent.
> I for one have already noted to several people
:)
> that I don't appreciate Valve's blacklisting linux
> users.
Do you have a reference for this? I'd love to add another reason to dislike Valve to my arsenal.
Hear hear. Thanks also to Epic/Digital Extremes for making Unreal such a fantasticly extensible and portable engine.
PB is just a tool. It's not its fault if the server you chose to play on is run by arseholes.
This is one of the reasons that playing on public servers doesn't seem to make much sense any more...
You realise that it "picks up" after the Library because levels 6-10 are just levels 1-5 in reverse, right? :)
:)
And yes, Marathon 2, System Shock 2 and Deus Ex are the Holy Trinity of first person shooters.
A thought provoking point, sir! But surely you can see the difference between a government that provies social services for those who are unable to provide for themselves, and a government that passes into law a bill that serves to annul parts of the same Constitution and Bill of Rights that that government swore to defend?
You can twist the definition of 'safety' however you want, but the issue (of the size/power of the government) is not a dichotomy.
Having demonstrated that he has utterly no conception of the situation and issues involved, Micheal Speck should be sacked on the spot.
:)
Looks like he's about as dumb as the crazy Australian eMinister (catchy New Labour-spun title used as I don't know his proper title). You know, the one who wants to cut Australia off from the rest of the Net(!)
For some reason, I am reminded of the old adage about how those who sacrifice liberty for safety deserve neither.
You appear to be posting under the naive assumption that the implementation of the Windows API matches the specification. :)
Although the situation in the UK doesn't seem to be anywhere near as ridiculous as some of the horror stories revealed in this thready, UK students can find a decent selection of textbooks from Smelly Student. All the books they sell are priced at 13.50!
The only reason I have to dislike them is that they severely reduced the resale value of my set of textbooks. :)
Bounces are sent with an empty envelope sender (ie, "MAIL FROM: " during the SMTP dialogue). Thus, the incoming bounce message is dropped, instead of replied to with another bounce.
If the mailserver you are sending your CV to is managed by vaguely competent admins then it will respond to your mail with a 550 error, which roughly corresponds to "piss off", and drop the connection.
The onus is then on the sending MTA (ie, your outgoing mail server) to send you a bounce message.
When dealing with viruses (or spammers), the only time you can ever be sure you are talking to the sender is while the message is being sent.
AFAIK Nvidia did incorporate the patches from minion.de. :)
Sounds sexy (except for the MS-DOSish behaviour for switching volumes and the use of the backslash as a directory separater). :)
:(
But will it grok my ext3 and NTFS partitions? FAT32 is nice and all, but kinda useless to me, and I daresay most people.
May I suggest you take a butchers' at XPDE? It aims to be a more-or-less exact emulation of Windows XP.
Anyone who believes that Trusted Computing, having been implemented as described above will _stay_ that way in subsequent implementations is a god damned fool.
It's all about acceptance. Remember the old adage about boiling frogs? You do it one degree at a time...